You should read this post before you choose the most suitable Online Traffic Counter and Statistic Services Comparison.

As every blogger and web admin know, we need a live traffic counter to see how our blog or site looks.

We need information such as:1. How many visitor have come to our blog.How many visitor today, this week, this month, this year, etc.2. From where location/countries they come. If you using blog for blogging and earn money, you really need this information, cause some of ads service has policy in specific country they value.3. From what referral they come? Is it from search engine, another blog linked with us, or another social website.4. What they read, this is important for us to know better what topic they love (popular topic) so you can explore more detail article related to the post / keyword in that post to drive more traffic.5. How long the stay in our blog.6. How deep they explore our blog, this mean more page impression. You know how essential page impression for publisher to earn more money. Read this post : how google value page impression and detect a valid click.7. From where they left our blog. If they left us from another link in our blog, you will get more detail information what link they like.8. Etc.

So, before you choose a counter and statistic service, you should ascertain what kind of information you need to support your blog or web.After determine what specific information you need, next you consider what service provider more suitable with your purposes.

I have some historical experience when choosing and using counter and statistic service provider. Some of them are insufficient from my expectation, other suite enough, and some are sucks. Have you read my article about GEO Counter widget from widget.net with their third site compteur.cc. if not, you should read that article. As my promise in that article, now I will post another related article, Online Counter and Statistic Services Comparison. And I will score them with my grade :

Before continue, I should remind you that service providers below just various that I know. So, if you didn’t find your service provider listed here, you should warm me or comment in this post for me and other reader to make rectifications.

3If you have money, I'm strongly recommend you to using this service. Otherwise, you may try for 30 days on free. You may enjoy the full comprehensive information. It gives the most comprehensive analysis of any other tracker I have seen. Keep up the good work. The accuracy is unbeatable. It's simple and quick to use and the information is exactly what we need to see where our traffic comes from. Web-Stats is the BEST hands-down.

Available, started from $6.95/month or $59/year (about $4.95/month) for 25,000 page views Package up to $199.95/month or $1799/year (about $4.95/month) for 15,000,000 page views Package

Information provided for Premium service

There is a lot of different between free service and premium service. For more information, you may visit : Upgrade InformationFor premium user; the counter does not have to be visible on your web pages. An 'invisible' counter style is available. The details of the last 4,000 visitors are tracked. Your statistics pages will load faster without ads. The report lists the last 4,000 visitors to your site showing the search words they used to find your site and the site they came from.

Available started from $8/month for Monthly Package, $45/six months for Semi-annually Package, and $90/year for Annually Package

Information provided for Premium service

Almost like free service, but (credit where credit is due) The Pro version will allow you to hide your webcounter. There will otherwise be no ads whatsoever on your website.For Monthly Package : With the GoStats professional version you get counter (link-back not required) or an invisible counter. Behind the scenes you also get reporting the Gostats powerful professional site statistics analyser. Monthly email report summaries are also included.For Semi-annually Package :Provides all of the 'Monthly' package plus: Free listing in our premium members register. (only for packages of six months or longer).For Annually Package :Provides all of the 'Monthly' package plus: Pay for a year and get a one month free.